This Is My Home

Just as Zhen Liang and Lie Xingyun were discussing the little girl in the floral linen dress, a series of 'thump thump thump' sounds came from outside the small gate in the backyard of the Mysterious Bookstore.

"Knock knock knock~~"

"Knock knock knock~~"

The knocking on the door kept going on and on.

"Crunch~~"

A door opened, and Zhang Caicai walked out of the room. She walked towards the back door with a puzzled look. Under normal circumstances, unless it was someone she knew, no one would come to disturb her without permission, let alone at night like this.

"Who is it?" Zhang Caicai asked, looking annoyed. The noise outside was already making it hard to sleep, and now someone was knocking on the door in the middle of the night, which made him quite irritable.

"Crunch~"

Zhang Caicai opened the back door and looked up at the person who came in, instantly freezing in place.

A little girl, about the same age and height as him, wearing a floral linen dress and two braids, stood outside the door, looking timidly at Zhang Caicai.

"Excuse me, is the shop owner, Ma Feifei, here?" The visitor was naturally Liuli. Seeing Zhang Caicai's stunned expression, Liuli asked politely.

"Ah... here..." Zhang Caicai hurriedly opened the door, facing Liuli. She clutched the hem of her clothes with both hands, avoiding eye contact with her, looking extremely nervous.

Liuli nodded, lifted her skirt, and stepped over the threshold to go inside.

"Hey, hey~~" Zhang Caicai blocked Liuli's way, waving her hands nervously, "You can't just come in like that."

"Why?" Liuli asked, puzzled.

"Because this is the Mysterious Bookstore, there are serious consequences if you wander in. If you need anything, just tell me, and I can pass it on for you." For some reason, Zhang Caicai's heart was racing, and her face turned red after blurting out those words.

"I didn't trespass, this is my home!" Liuli said to Zhang Caicai with a serious expression.

"Your home?" This time it was Zhang Caicai's turn to be confused. Although he hadn't been to the Mysterious Bookstore for long, he knew exactly who owned it and who worked there. He had never seen the girl in front of him before, so how could this be her home?

"Yes, this is my home." Liuli nodded and walked past Zhang Caicai to go inside.

"No, no, no~~" Zhang Caicai spread her arms to stop her.

"You're stopping me from going home, I'll get angry." Liuli pouted, put her hands on her hips, and said angrily.

"Girl, don't joke around. How could this be your home? You'd better leave quickly, or you won't be able to leave once the shop owner finds out," Zhang Caicai advised with a bitter face. What kind of place is the Mysterious Bookstore? Is it a place where people can just barge in? If it weren't for the inexplicable feeling Zhang Caicai had for the girl in front of her, she might have personally kicked her out.

"You don't believe me?" Liuli tilted her head and looked at Zhang Caicai.

Zhang Caicai shook her head.

"Okay!" Liuli nodded, stretched out one hand, hooked it towards Zhang Caicai's space bag, and said, "Little guy, come out."

"Buzz buzz buzz~~"

Suddenly, Zhang Caicai's spatial bag trembled and began to shake without warning.

"Ding ding ding~~"

Immediately afterwards, the space bag emitted fluorescence.

Zhang Caicai was taken aback. He sensed something about to burst out of the space bag and quickly reached out to grab it.

"Whoosh~"

A beam of light shot out before Zhang Caicai, and a black-covered book, radiating golden light, floated in front of Zhang Caicai —or rather, in front of Liuli.

This book was the Epic-grade- quality book "Chuka Ichiban!" that Ma Feifei showed him.

"Come." With a flick of Liuli finger, the book began to spin, as if it had come to Liuli, dancing gracefully with the movement of Liuli finger, golden light constantly transforming into tiny stars that fell from its surface.

"This..." Zhang Caicai subconsciously took a step back, looking at everything in shock.

"Whoosh~"

The book "Chuka Ichiban!" Chuka Ichiban! finally landed in Liuli's palm. The golden light faded, and Liuli handed the book to Zhang Caicai, saying, "Now do you believe this is my home?"

"Smack~"

Zhang Caicai snatched the "Chuka Ichiban!" magazine from Liuli's hand, turned around and ran towards Ma Feifei's room, shouting as she ran, "Shopkeeper, something terrible has happened! The main character is here!"

Ma Feifei wasn't actually asleep. He was sitting on the bed opening treasure chests, but instead of his own, he was trying to open other people's chests. However, no matter what Ma Feifei tried, he couldn't open any of the other chests.

"Your system is so sneaky! I was just looking, is it really necessary to make such a fuss!" Ma Feifei couldn't help but complain. This situation clearly indicated that the system had set up a specific program to open the treasure chest. If it wasn't someone with the corresponding name, then the treasure chest couldn't be opened, not even for Ma Feifei.

"Is this to keep me at bay, or to keep me at bay, or to keep me at bay?" Ma Feifei looked at the seven treasure chests scattered on the bed and couldn't help but sigh. It was a real pity that he couldn't open their treasure chests. Ma Feifei swore that he only wanted to take a look, really.

"Shopkeeper, something terrible has happened! The main character has arrived!"

Just then, Zhang Caicai's wailing and howling sounded outside, accompanied by the rapid patter of footsteps. The footsteps were so fast that they arrived at the door of Ma Feifei's room in the blink of an eye.

"Knock knock knock~" Zhang Caicai was banging on the door.

Startled, Ma Feifei quickly put the treasure chest away and shouted outside, "What's all the noise about in the middle of the night? Zhang Caicai, do you want to die?"

Ma Feifei was furious. Zhang Caicai was always jumping around and acting recklessly, which was really annoying. Originally, Ma Feifei felt sorry for Zhang Caicai because Yun Qingyang had swindled her out of more than 10,000 Spirit Crystal. But now he suddenly felt that Zhang Caicai deserved to be taken advantage of by Yun Qingyang and should be applauded.

"No, shopkeeper, it's true! The real culprit has come knocking!" Zhang Caicai said from outside in a terrified voice.

"The main person? What do you mean?" Ma Feifei didn't understand. She got up, put on her shoes, walked to the door, and opened it. As soon as the door opened, Zhang Caicai's shocked face came into view.

Seeing Ma Feifei open the door, Zhang Caicai quickly stepped aside, pointed towards the back door, and said tremblingly, "Shopkeeper, you... you see."

Upon hearing this, Ma Feifei looked up and saw a little girl in a floral linen dress with two braids skipping and hopping towards him.

Ma Feifei frowned. He had never seen this girl before, but for some reason, he felt that she had a special scent that made him want to get closer to her.

Liuli skipped and hopped to a stop less than a meter away from Ma Feifei, gave Ma Feifei a deep bow, and respectfully said, "Father, Liuli greets you."

"Huh?"